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I'm impatient of his impatience
Hello, so I have a friend who I am starting to see problems with, allow me to explain. So this friend I have, we Skype pretty much everyday, but he goes through kind of a hard life, he has nothing to do except game at his house, his town doesn't have available jobs, he doesn't have a driver's license, and his family sucks. I'm pretty much the only thing that keeps him entertained and most nights he manages to laugh.
Except there is one problem I notice...
He has absolutely no patience at all! I mean I find it understandable because of his situation, he has experienced trauma that no child should ever have experienced by his family's hands and I don't wanna cause anymore problems by nagging, but honestly I'm sick of being an emotional punching bag. Let me elaborate some examples:
1: I'm watching him play a game because he likes to share his gaming experience with me. My brother walks in because he wants to show me something, 10 seconds into the conversation, I hear a very annoyed toned "Five years later" and it's shortly after that my brother leaves. He goes "Took ya long enough" and then I remark with "Relax bud, it was just a sec :P" in a joking manner, then he just very condescending-like says "mhm". I could tell he was annoyed.
2: (This is something my brother does too which is why I don't like this) Whenever I do something wrong or point something out that is obvious to "him", normally someone would reply with "ok", but he replies "Well no shit" or something along those lines. And this is in a very harsh tone most of the time.
Don't get me wrong, he is a very great friend in most scenarios that gets handed a lotta shit in his day, I just wish there was a way I could teach him patience, he never had those parental figures to teach him and his situation stems this problem. I kinda tried approaching him about this before, but I can't see any approach that would work to not aggravate him, let alone get him to actually listen.
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